Cavity plane



J. "ENG'EAND.

CAVITY PLANE.

(No Model.)

Patented Ja11.16,1883.

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, ATTORNEYS.

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To all whom tt may concern UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES ENGLAND, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

. CAVITY-PLAN E.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 270,769, dated January 16, 1883.

- Application filed April as, 1882. (No model.)

Be it known that I, JAMES ENGLAND, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hand Planing and Grooving Tools, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention, which is applicable to various kinds of planing and grooving tools suitable for carpenters, coopers, and other likeuses, consists in a double or opposite handle- ,ended tool provided with an intermediate slotted metalframe and one or more cutterholders with attached face plate or plates, and rear end projections adjustable within or through said frame and capable of being. secured therein atany desired distance from the main or handle portion of the tool, whereby an implement readily convertible -into different uses is obtained, and the cutting portion of the tool may be made to work at different distances from the main body of it.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,t'orming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal side elevation of a reversible or double-faced spokeshave constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line x w; and Fig. 3, a plan of a slotted frame attached to or forming part of the handle of said tool, and serving for the reception or adjustment of a cutterholding frame, with its attached face plate or plates. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line y-y, Fig. 5, of a planing-cutter frame with attached faceplate of segmental shape and planing-cutter in its place, suitable for inser: tion and adjustment within the slotted frame of the handle of the tool shown in Fig. 1, in.

place of the double-faced spoke-shave cutterframe arranged therein; and Fig. 5 is an inverted plan of the same. Fig. 6 is a side eleattached to'its outer ends and guides or ways 0 c on the interior of its ends. Said metal frame is likewise provided with holding-screws d d on its sides and ends for securing the cutter-holding frame, with its attached face-plate and cutter or cuttcrs,within the slotted frameA.

The tool, taken as a whole, is designed to be used as aspoke-shave, and is so used as far as the grasp and manipulation of it by the handles A A are concerned but the slotted metal frame A, with its screws d d, not only provides for readily converting it into various kinds of planing, grooving,'or scraping tools, butalso for the adjustment of the face-plate of the tool to different distances from the longitudinal vcenter of the handle-holding portion of it. This latter provision is very advantageous, inasmuch as it admits of the faceplate, and in fact of the whole cutter-holding portion of the tool, being projected more or less beyond the main or handle portion of the tool, to work in recesses or places where it is not convenient or practicable to work the entire implement, and where the tool is a grooving one it may, by the provision which'is thus secured for it, be used to cut a deeper groove beyond the general surface of the work than otherwise would be practicable. To these ends or purposes, which are distinct from the mere adjustment of the cutter or cutters relatively to their face plate or plates, the cutter-holding portion of the tool is distinct from the handle portion of it, and is made adjustable up or down within or through the slotted metal frame A by constructing the face plate or plates B of the implement with end projections, G (J, perpendicular to the faceplates, and at a suitable distance apart to be capable of sliding within or through the ends or ways 0 c of the slotted frame A, and of being secured therein by the screws d d at any desired projection from the handle portion of the instrument to which they may have been adjusted, such face plate or plates B, with their attached projections (J O, constituting a cutter-holding frame. It is immaterial whether the implement be a spoke-shave, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, a circular planing tool, as provided for by the constructions of the cutterholder shown in Figs. 4.. and 5, a groovingtool, as provided for by the construction represented in Fig. 6,- or any other kind of planing, grooving, or scraping tool having either single or double facing-plates. The facilities of adjusting and securing the'cntter-holders, regardless of the shape of the cutters e and independent of their adjustment relatively to their face plate or plates, is thesame, and the same main or handle portion of the tool may be used for different cutters or their holders,

thus virtually making the implement a readilycbnvertible one for work of different styles or character.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with the handles A A, their connecting slotted frame A, and the screws d d, of a cutter-holding frame having one or more face-plates or surfaces, B, and rear JAMES ENGLAND.

Witnesses:

(J. SEDGWICK, B. G. UNDERWOOD. 

